Firefighter Patrick Brady was just 42 years old and an 11-year veteran of the FDNY.

He was responding to a fire at a building in Brownsville, Brooklyn, on Saturday when he had a heart attack.

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Firefighter Patrick Brady was just 42 years old and an 11-year veteran of the FDNY

He was responding to a fire at a building in Brownsville, Brooklyn, on Saturday when he had a heart attack

In his tight-knit neighborhood of the Rockaways, many are feeling the loss

His fellow firefighters and FDNY EMS members tried to save him, taking him to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he passed away.

On Sunday, members of the FDNY placed bunting on the exterior of FDNY Ladder Company 120 in Brooklyn, where Brady served.

In his tight-knit neighborhood of the Rockaways, many are feeling the loss.

“Pat gave his life so people could be safe and in this peninsula it’s big enough to fit us all but small enough that we all kind of feel the pain, it’s in the air,” Joe Fox, a retired NYPD chief who knows the Brady family, said.

“Pat a wonderful man, a man who loved to give, a wonderful family, it’s times like this that we remember all the things that we have they don’t just come they’re all here because of people like him,” Fox said.

Everyone NY1 stopped on the street or talked to in local restaurants heard about Brady’s death, even if they didn’t know him personally.

Many in the community are members of the FDNY or the NYPD. Several members of Brady’s family are also members of the FDNY.

“The community is a lot of blue-collar workers, a lot of civil service workers that have lived here their whole lives, their family, their brothers, their grandparents, so there’s a lot of roots here,” Tom Werther, a retired NYPD officer, said. “So when we lose a police officer, a firefighter, a [member of the] military it’s not just the family that feels that it’s the community as a whole that feels its not just the blood family that’s affected it’s the community family that really feels the heat as well.”

The FDNY says the funeral and wake for Brady will take place at the Marine Park Funeral Home at 3024 Quentin Road in Brooklyn on Friday, Nov. 14.